Happy heterogeneity? Feminism, development, and the grassroots women's movement in Peru.

Snapshot of the Comedores Populares

It is five-thirty in the morning, and Marisol squints her organ of sights almost shut, pretending she is still in bed. The peaks of sandy mountains thrust forward through the low blanket of mist but the thatch and plywood shacks that cling to the oblique directions below remain obscured. Embarking upon the first task of a lengthy day, she leaves her seven children, sum of two units grandchildren, two sons-in-law, her husband, and her cat behind, allows herself out of her two-room house and walks along the bumpy dirt road, pulling the sleeve of her r knitted cardigan down above her cold ...